tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44832713134990740632024-03-12T21:27:20.561-07:00The Fill in the Gaps: 100 projectEmily Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01707967073095394090noreply@blogger.comBlogger557125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-6811077163518945642013-10-06T14:34:00.000-07:002013-10-06T14:34:18.557-07:00Erin G's 100<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I know I'm joining the party late, but here is my 100:</div>
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Brisingr by Christopher Paulini</div>
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Inheritance by Christopher Paulini</div>
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The Plains of Passage y Jean M Auel</div>
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The Tapirs Morning Bath by Elizabeth Royte</div>
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Wicked by Gregory Maguire</div>
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The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein</div>
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn</div>
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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold</div>
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Wonder by R J Palacio</div>
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Grimms Complete Fairy Tales by The Fall River Publishing
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Eldritch tales By HP Lovecraft</div>
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy</div>
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Five Weeks in a Balloon</div>
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth</div>
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From the Earth to the Moon</div>
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</div>
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Around the World in 80 Days</div>
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The Mysterious Island (Last 7 by Jules Verne(</div>
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Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice</div>
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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice</div>
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The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice</div>
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A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div>
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin</div>
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin</div>
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austin</div>
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Emma by Jane Austin</div>
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin</div>
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Persuassion by Jane Austin</div>
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Lady Susan by Jane Austin</div>
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn BY Mark Twain</div>
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain</div>
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The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain</div>
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Short Story Collection by Mark Twain</div>
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The Son of the Wolf By Jack London</div>
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The God of hid Fathers By Jack London</div>
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Children of the Frost By Jack London</div>
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White Fang By Jack London</div>
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The Faith of Men By Jack London</div>
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Uncollected Stories and Tales By Jack London</div>
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The Call of the Wild By Jack London</div>
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The Sea Wolf By Jack London</div>
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Tales of the Fish Patrol By Jack London</div>
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Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer</div>
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Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div>
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville</div>
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Whitman: Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman</div>
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Essays and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson </div>
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Waldn by Henry David Thoreau</div>
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Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau</div>
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The Illiad By Homer</div>
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Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathon Swift</div>
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Possession by AS Byatt</div>
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Tipperary by Frank Delaney</div>
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The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton</div>
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Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder</div>
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Aphrodite by Isabel Allende</div>
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The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon</div>
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The Mystic Life of Merlin by RJ Stewart</div>
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The Works of Kipling by Black’s Readers Company</div>
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Voyager by Diana Gabaldon</div>
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Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon</div>
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon</div>
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An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon</div>
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The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkein</div>
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The Return of the King by JRR Tolkein</div>
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The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien</div>
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman</div>
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Beowulf By Unknown</div>
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The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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Magic Kingdom For Sale – Sol by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Elf of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Sciones of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks</div>
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The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley</div>
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Tales from the Hood by Michael Buckley</div>
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Magic and Other Misdemeanors by Michael Buckley</div>
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The Problem Child by Michael Buckley</div>
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The Everafter War by Michael Buckley</div>
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Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley</div>
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The Unusual Suspects by Michael Buckley</div>
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Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson</div>
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Mistborn: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson</div>
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Mistborn: The Hero of Ages y Brandon Sanderson</div>
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Mistborn: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson</div>
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The Wood Wife by Terri Windling</div>
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand</div>
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<![endif]-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12486384694589743625noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-29245821804519578012013-09-10T18:08:00.000-07:002013-09-10T18:08:52.537-07:00A little over halfwayI've been at this for two years and nine months now and have fallen a bit behind, having only read 47 of my books. I have decided that I am going to take the liberty of swapping out up to five books, two for books that I have attempted and decided that I am just not interested in, plus up to three others. I subbed a book once before, when I decided that <i>Three Cups of Tea</i> needed to go because of the dishonesty in the book.<br />
<br />
I will mark my substitutions in red. I'm not going to chicken out and sub for <i>Karamazov </i>or <i>Les Mis, </i>as much as I would like to take the easy way out.<br />
<i> </i><br />
So here is my list:<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2/13/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Les Miserables by Victor Hugo</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">North and South by Gaskell</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dune by Frank Herbert (3/19/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Wench by </span></span><span class="ptBrand">Dolen Perkins-Valdez</span> </li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (3/16/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Law and Gospel by CFW Walther</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (3/17/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Beach Music by Pat Conroy (3/22/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Children of Hurin JRR Tolkien</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Frontiersmen by Allen Eckert</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (12/5/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2/21/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1/27/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (2/5/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (4/29/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Churchill by Paul Johnson</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><strike>The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesa</strike>r, <span style="color: red;">subbing The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (11/4/2012)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Summerland by Michael Chabon (6/25/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier (5/19/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (6/28/2012)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I Am Legend by Richard Matheson</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller (2/9/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (4/12/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A Life Worth Living by John Holt</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 by Reston</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (12/13/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple (3/20/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1/7/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (7/10/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (9/25/2012)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (4/3/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Faust by Goethe</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (5/29/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (4/7/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (4/24/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Redwall by Brian Jacques</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><strike>The Guns of August by Barabara Tuchman</strike> (just can't get into the military history), <span style="color: red;">subbing Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strike><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Life of Pi by Yann Mertel,</span></span></strike><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: red;">subbing Lord of the Flies by William Golding</span></span></span><strike><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span></strike></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Aeneid by Virgil</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Complete Poetry of John Donne</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot (4/23/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> My Antonia by Willa Cather (1/15/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dead Souls by Gogol</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (9/28/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">East Lynne by Ellen Wood (6/18/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery (1/6/2012)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Hobbit JRR Tolkien</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (12/26/2010)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Robinson Crusoe (9/9/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Once and Future King by T.H. White</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (7/18/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (3/25/2013)</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Tom Jones by Henry Fielding</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><strike>The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton</strike>, subbing<span style="color: red;"> Middlemarch by George Eliot</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Introducing Father Brown by GK Chesterton (10/6/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (5/2/11)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On the Road by Jack Kerouac</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (5/6/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (7/2/2012)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1/20/2013)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Foundation by Isaac Asimov (3/6/2011)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes (12/30/2012)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>The Warden</i> by Anthony Trollope (1/28/2013) </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><strike>Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin, </strike>(I have read other works by LeGuin this year)<span style="color: red;"> subbing The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Stranger by Albert Camus</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Histories by Herodotus</span></span></li>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-74188866383581639382013-06-15T08:14:00.000-07:002013-06-15T08:14:34.124-07:0057 books readBraddon, Mary Elizabeth. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/lady-audleys-secret.html">Lady Audley's Secret</a>.<br />
Gaskell, Elizabeth. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/ruth-1853.html">Ruth</a>.<br />
Heyer, Georgette. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/faros-daughter-1941.html">Faro's Daughter</a><br />
Heyer, Georgette. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/fridays-child-1944.html">Friday's Child</a><br />
Trollope, Anthony. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/can-you-forgive-her-1865.html">Can You Forgive Her?</a><br />
Trollope, Anthony. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/06/phineas-finn-1869.html">Phineas Finn</a>.<br />
Webster, Jean. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/sunday-salon-reading-daddy-long-legs.html">Daddy Long Legs</a>.<br />
Webster, Jean. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/dear-enemy-1915.html">Dear Enemy</a>.<br />
Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793618692608823102noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-60703837633154584312013-05-28T09:32:00.002-07:002013-05-28T09:32:30.045-07:00Darlene's Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling<span style="font-size: large;">Hi, everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can read the review on my blog <a href="http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.ca/2013/05/book-review-harry-potter-and-chamber-of.html">HERE</a>.</span></div>
Darlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10222625207655829945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-30907757934142203572013-04-27T15:29:00.000-07:002013-04-27T15:29:04.880-07:00Excellent Women by Barbara PymI had such high hopes that I would love this book, and I did, so very much.<br />
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So many people had said that it was so good, that it was Barbara Pym’s best book, and when I realised that it was the story of a spinster, in her thirties in the fifties, my mind went spinning back.<br />
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Not to the fifties – I’m not that old – but to when my mother took me to church as a very small child. We always sat behind a row of elderly ladies, and I spent a long time looking at their backs and hats during dull sermons and lengthy intercessions. They always spoke to my mother – they had know her since she was a small girl coming to church with her own mother – and whenever something was going on, be it a coffee morning or a jumble sale, they were always there and they were always busy.<br />
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When I was a small girl I thought that they were ancient, but looking back I think most of them would have been in their sixties. Years layer my mother used to visit one of those ladies when she was housebound, and I remember my mother telling me that she was always so welcoming and so appreciative. Not long after she did her nephew appeared on our doorstep with two carved elephants. My mother had mentioned in passing that she remembered her parents having a similar pair, and she had made a note that nother was to have her elephants.<br />
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I’m rambling, but I’m going to come to the point now. Mildred Lathbury – the excellent woman who tells this story was so real, so utterly believable that I am quite prepared to believe that I might have been looking at her back and her hat back in the day.<br />
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Mildred was the daughter of a clergyman, and she had been brought up in a country vicarage, but when she found herself alone in the world she moved to a small flat near the Anglican church that she regularly attended. She was a stalwart of that church and had formed a close friendship with Winifred Mallory. She was the vicar’s sister and, as both sister and brother were ummarried, they lived together in the vicarage. It had been suggested that Mildred would be an excellent wife for Julian Mallory …<br />
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New arrivals heralded change.<br />
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First new neighbours moved into the flat below Mildred’s. Helena Napier, an anthropologist, arrived first, and Mildred was taken aback when Helena spoke to her freely and frankly, when she announced that she didn’t go to church, when she said that she didn’t believe in housework. Her husband, Rockingham had just come out of the navy and was on his way home from Italy. Mildred wasn’t sure if she liked Helena but she was intrigued by her, and by new possibilities. <br />
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And then the Mallory’s decided to let a room. Allegra Grey was a clergyman’s widow and she seemed to be the ideal person to share the vicarage. She wasn’t, and some worked that out more quickly than others. There was much speculation, and a good deal of gossiping.<br />
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Mildred’s relationship with the Napiers was lovely to watch. She was flattered to be asked for help and advice, and she came to realise that marriage was far, far more complicated than she had realised. And that she was rather more involved than she really wanted to be. Events at the vicarage offered interesting parallels and contrasts. Church events provided a wonderful backdrop. And I haven’t even mentioned Everest Bone …<br />
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Barbara Pym constructed her story so cleverly and told it beautifully. There is wit, intelligence and insight, and such a very light touch and a natural charm. A simple story, but the details made it sing. It was so very believable.<br />
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It offers a window to look clearly at a world that existed not so long ago, but that has changed now so completely.<br />
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Mildred’s voice rang completely true, and I did like her. She was a genuinely nice woman, practical intelligent, and dependable. She didn’t think marriage was the answer to everything, she liked having her independence and her own space, but she did rather like the idea of being married, of having a companion in life.<br />
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And now I have just one more word – excellent!FleurFisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00096222149445024649noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-64369775239503522912013-04-18T14:58:00.003-07:002013-04-18T14:58:59.507-07:00Mariana by Monica DickensThis may be the loveliest opening to a novel that I have ever read.
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Mary escaped to the country with just her small terrier dog, Bingo, in tow. Her husband was at sea, in the navy, and the country was at war. Because she wanted to be quiet, to remember, to think.
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It was lovely watching Mary and Bingo settle in, lovely to be reminded of the depth of Monica Dickens' understanding of character and of her talent for catching exactly the right details to paint a perfect picture.<br />
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I was particularly taken with her understanding that a terrier can be sound asleep and alert at the same time ...
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The peaceful scene was disturbed when Mary switched on the wireless, when she heard that her husband's ship had been hit. There were survivors, there was hope, but Mary had a night to get through before she found out the next morning if her husband was alive or dead.
It was a sleepless night, and as she lay awake Mary turned over memories in her mind.
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She remembered her childhood, with a mother who had been widowed in the last war and who worked as a dressmaker to support them. Her husband's family would have helped but she didn't want to be beholden to them. It was enough that they gave Mary lovely, idyllic summer holidays in the country. And a place in a bigger family.
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She remembered going to drama school with grand plans, and coming to realise that she was on the wrong path. Fashion college in Paris was a much better idea. She could have a lovely time and she could play a part in the family business. Mary had a wonderful time in Paris, and she made a marvellous catch. But even the most marvellous catch is not necessarily the right catch.
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Mary found her happy ending back in England, at the most unexpected moment.
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Now it has to be said that Mary is not the most sympathetic of characters. She is often awkward, thoughtless, selfish even. But she was real, and for all her failing I did like her, I did want her to find her path in life, her place in the world. Sometimes fallible heroines are so much easier to love.
And Mary was real, alive, and her emotional journey was so utterly real. There were highs and lows, tears and laughter. Every emotion a young woman might go through. And so many incidents, so many moments to recollect.
All of this was observed so beautifully, with understanding, intelligence, and just the right amount of empathy.<br />
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But if Mary's life was the foreground, the background was just as perfectly realised. Her world was as alive as she was, and every character who was part of that word, even if only for a short while, was caught perfectly.<br />
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I loved watching over Mary's life. It was an ordinary life, but every ordinary life is unique and Monica Dickens highlighted that quite beautifully.
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And I could have stayed in her world quite happily, but morning eventually came, and Mary had to face whatever news of her husband might come. And when it came I had to leave.
I'd love to know what happened in the next chapters of Mary's life, but failing that I'll go back and read about the years I know all over again one day. Because this is a lovely book, and a lovely way to get lost in another life and another world.FleurFisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00096222149445024649noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-10613823158137502362013-02-12T13:42:00.000-08:002013-02-12T13:43:34.270-08:00Darlene's Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingHi, everyone!<br />
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I'm not doing very well with this challenge!<br />
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This is Book #3 for me:<br />
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling<br />
5/5 stars<br />
Link to my review on my blog is <a href="http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.ca/2013/02/book-review-harry-potter-and.html">HERE</a><br />
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<br />Darlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10222625207655829945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-26952381389857340562013-01-17T04:53:00.000-08:002013-01-17T06:40:27.309-08:00A list rediscoveryI rediscovered a list on here which I made 4 years ago, I then stopped blogging and promptly forgot about this list.
These are the books I have left on it to read, there are a few that I have can't remember why they are on the list, these I will have to investigate:
<br/>1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck </br>
<br/>2. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair </br>
<br/>3. The Cider House Rules: A Novel by John Irving </br>
<br/>4. Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally </br>
<br/>5. Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera </br>
<br/>6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman </br>
<br/>7. Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o </br>
<br/>8. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison </br>
<br/>9. Gravity's Rainbow </br>
<br/>10. Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn </br>
<br/>11. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene </br>
<br/>12. The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake </br>
<br/>13. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler </br>
<br/>14. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen </br>
<br/>15. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain </br>
<br/>16. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller </br>
<br/>17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner </br>
<br/>18. The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy </br>
<br/>19. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy </br>
<br/>20. Hunger by Knut Hamsun </br>
<br/>21. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky </br>
<br/>22. Danial Deronda, George Eliot </br>
<br/>23. The Water-Babies (a Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby) by Charles KIngsley </br>
<br/>24. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo </br>
<br/>25. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne </br>
<br/>26. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift </br>
<br/>27. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn </br>
<br/>28. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes </br>
<br/>29. The Metamorphoses by Ovid </br>
<br/>30. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman </br>
<br/>31. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende </br>
<br/>32. Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates </br>
<br/>33. A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates </br>
<br/>34.Merlin's Brooke, Jane Yolen </br>
<br/>35. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie </br>
<br/>36. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling </br>
<br/>37.Arthur and George by Julian Barnes </br>
<br/>38. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac </br>
<br/>39. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman </br>
<br/>40. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe </br>
<br/>41.Canary Row, Steinbeck </br>
<br/>42. In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming </br>
<br/>43.Migel Street, Naiupaul </br>
<br/>44. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson </br>
<br/>45.The Wild Wood, Charles de Lint </br>
<br/>46.In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje </br>
<br/>47.Pendragon </br>
<br/>48. The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger </br>
<br/>49. Crash by J.G. Ballard </br>
<br/>50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley </br>
<br/>51. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa </br>
<br/>52. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri </br>
<br/>53.The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint </br>
<br/>54. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card </br>
<br/>55.Houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono </br>
<br/>56.The Devil that Danced on the Water, Aminatta Furna </br>
<br/>57.The Circle of Karma, Kunzang Choden </br>
<br/>58. Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay </br>
<br/>59.I AM David, Holm </br>
<br/>60. The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps by Michel Faber </br>
Quite nice to see that I had read 40 from the list with no prompt. I will continue tackling this list and see what I can acheive by April next year.katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05647610491252326847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-75201543369207667542012-12-03T10:22:00.000-08:002012-12-03T10:22:19.461-08:00Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day by Winifred Watson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I added <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/916856.Miss_Pettigrew_Lives_For_A_Day">Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day</a> after hearing about the movie with the same name. I decided to read the book and I'm glad I did. It was a light hearted romp.<br />
Miss Pettigrew's adventure starts with her looking for employment. Miss Pettigrew is a terrible governess but needs a job in order to keep her room. At the employment agency, Miss Pettigrew is given the name of Miss LaFosse who is looking for a governess. Miss Pettigrew heads to Miss LaFosse's residence determined to make this stick. But when she gets to Miss LaFosse's there are no children, but Miss LaFosse needs a lot of help and Miss Pettigrew is determined to help her. Miss LaFosse leads the opposite life of Miss Pettigrew. Miss LaFosse is a lounge singer, with more men than she knows what to do with. Determined to see Miss LaFosse settled down, Miss Pettigrew injects herself in a world she knows nothing about.<br />
I loved both the fish out of water and the Cinderella aspects to Miss Pettigrew. Miss Pettigrew is about twenty years older than Miss LaFosse and her friends. Their expectations in life and with relationships are completely different. But Miss LaFosse welcomes Miss Pettigrew and gives her a makeover.<br />
I really enjoyed Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. It was cute and an enjoyable read.Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004178422343485278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-68720349020447703422012-07-17T19:32:00.001-07:002012-07-17T19:32:42.155-07:00Darlene's Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthyI'm not doing very well with this challenge and need to pick up the pace! I need to make more of an effort to choose books from my list. But the new ones that come out are so tempting! Ah, the bane of a book-lover :)<br />
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I just finished Book #2 on my Fill In The Gaps list:<br />
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<b>The Road</b> by Cormac McCarthy<br />
3/5 stars <br />
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Here is the link to my review:<br />
<a href="http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.ca/2012/07/audiobook-review-road-by-cormac-mccarthy.html">http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.ca/2012/07/audiobook-review-road-by-cormac-mccarthy.html</a>Darlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10222625207655829945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-15419485474157086712012-07-01T17:08:00.000-07:002012-07-01T17:16:04.197-07:00Updates to ListI honestly can't remember my last update, but, I have read some more titles on my list. If my previous posts had correct math, I think I've read 51 books.<br />
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Collins, Wilkie. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/woman-in-white.html">The Woman in White</a><br />
Dickens, Charles. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/david-copperfield.html">David Copperfield.</a><br />
Dickens, Charles. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-dorrit.html">Little Dorrit</a>.<br />
Dickens, Charles. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/oliver-twist.html">Oliver Twist.</a><br />
Dickens, Charles. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/our-mutual-friend.html">Our Mutual Friend.</a><br />
Steinbeck, John. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/grapes-of-wrath.html">Grapes of Wrath</a> <br />
Zamyatin, Yevgeny. <a href="http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/we.html">We</a>.Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793618692608823102noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-27272860786321995892012-05-19T23:29:00.001-07:002012-05-21T22:23:53.502-07:00Michelle (3M) at 1morechapter's Progress<br />
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Michelle (3M) from <a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/">1morechapter</a> here. Wowsers. I just realized that I have less than two years to finish <span style="background-color: white;">at least </span><span style="background-color: white;">75% of this list. Reading 46 titles in two years is very doable. I just regret that I haven't gotten further along by now. One of the reasons is personal issues in 2010 that made me forego reading more than I should have. Hope to get back on track now, though. I didn't review all that I read, either, but there are some that are linked below.</span></div>
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<li>Middlemarch by George Eliot (1001)</li>
<li>War and Peace by Tolstoy (1001)</li>
<li>Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (1001)</li>
<li><strong>The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1001)</strong></li>
<li>If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (1001)</li>
<li>Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (1001)</li>
<li>The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1001)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/07/29/unless-by-carol-shields/">Unless</a> by Carol Shields (1001)</strong></li>
<li><strong>Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1001)</strong></li>
<li>Memoirs of a Geisha by Golden (1001)</li>
<li>What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt (1001)</li>
<li>The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera (1001)</li>
<li>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1001)</li>
<li><strong>The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (1001)</strong></li>
<li>Kafka on the Shore by Murakami (1001)</li>
<li>The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami (1001)</li>
<li>Cry, the Beloved Country by Paton (1001)</li>
<li>Labrynthes by Borges (1001)</li>
<li>Ficciones by Borges (1001)</li>
<li>The Hobbit by Tolkien (1001)</li>
<li>Out of Africa by Denison (1001)</li>
<li>Brave New World by Huxley (1001)</li>
<li>Summer by Edith Wharton (1001)</li>
<li>The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1001)</li>
<li>Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1001)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/01/08/breathing-lessons-by-anne-tyler/">Breathing Lessons</a> – Anne Tyler (Pulitzer)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2012/04/18/a-thousand-acres-by-jane-smiley/">A Thousand Acres</a> – Jane Smiley (Pulitzer)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/07/09/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao/">Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</a> (Pulitzer)</strong></li>
<li><strong>Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Pulitzer)</strong></li>
<li><strong>Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer)</strong></li>
<li>American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer)</li>
<li>A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole (Pulitzer)</li>
<li><strong>The Good Earth by Buck (Pulitzer)</strong></li>
<li>So Big by Ferber (Pulitzer)</li>
<li>Gone with the Wind by Mitchell (Pulitzer)</li>
<li>Lonesome Dove by McMurtry (Pulitzer)</li>
<li>Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer)</li>
<li>Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Pulitzer)</li>
<li><strong>one title from 2010-2013 Pulitzers (Tinkers)</strong></li>
<li>second title from 2010-2013 Pulitzers</li>
<li><strong>one title from 2009-2013 Bookers (<a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/10/16/the-sense-of-an-ending-by-julian-barnes-2011-booker-shortlist/">The Sense of an Ending</a>)</strong></li>
<li>second title from 2009-2013 Bookers</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/02/18/disgrace-by-j-m-coetzee-book-and-film/">Disgrace</a> by J.M. Coetzee (Booker)</strong></li>
<li><strong>Remains of the Day by Ishiguro (Booker)</strong></li>
<li><strong>Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Booker)</strong></li>
<li>Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally (Booker)</li>
<li>Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Booker)</li>
<li>Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (Booker)</li>
<li>Possession by A.S. Byatt (Booker)</li>
<li><strong>On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Orange)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/02/01/small-island-by-andrea-levy/">Small Island</a> by Andrea Levy (Orange)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/09/24/bel-canto-by-ann-patchett/">Bel Canto</a> by Ann Patchett (Orange)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/09/06/the-idea-of-perfection-by-kate-grenville/">The Idea of Perfection</a> by Kate Grenville (Orange)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/01/18/larrys-party-by-carol-shields/">Larry’s Party</a> by Carol Shields (Orange)</strong></li>
<li>The Road Home by Rose Tremain (Orange)</li>
<li><strong>Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset (Nobel laureate)</strong></li>
<li>Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak (Nobel laureate)</li>
<li>Blindness by Saramago (Nobel laureate)</li>
<li>The Piano Teacher by Jelinek (Nobel laureate)</li>
<li><strong>The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof (Nobel laureate)</strong></li>
<li>The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing (Nobel laureate)</li>
<li>Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (Nobel laureate)</li>
<li>Home by Marilynne Robinson (NYT/Orange)</li>
<li>The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (NYT)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/07/19/intuition-by-allegra-goodman/">Intuition</a> by Allegra Goodman (NYT)</strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">When Will There Be Good News?</span></strong> by Kate Atkinson (NYT)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/04/22/natasha-and-other-stories/">Natasha and Other Stories</a> by David Bezmozgis (NYT)</strong></li>
<li><strong>The Inhabited World by David Long (NYT)</strong></li>
<li>The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin (NYT)</li>
<li>The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Chabon (NYT)</li>
<li>Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 2 (classic)</li>
<li>Anne of Windy Poplars by Montgomery (classic)</li>
<li>Anne’s House of Dreams by Montgomery (classic)</li>
<li>Anne of Ingleside by Montgomery (classic)</li>
<li>Rainbow Valley by Montgomery (classic)</li>
<li>Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery (classic)</li>
<li>Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis (sci-fi classic)</li>
<li>Perelandra by C.S. Lewis (sci-fi classic)</li>
<li>Our Horses in Egypt by Belben (James Tait Black Prize)</li>
<li>Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (PEN/Hemingway)</li>
<li>To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (Hugo)</li>
<li>The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (Nebula)</li>
<li>Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize)</li>
<li><strong>Outlander by Gil Adamson (Books in Canada First Novel Award)</strong></li>
<li>Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (Books in Canada First Novel Award)</li>
<li>Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder (Norwegian in translation)</li>
<li>Periodic Table by Primo Levi (Italian in translation)</li>
<li><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Elegance of the Hedgehog</span></strong> by Muriel Barbery (French in translation)</li>
<li>The Character of Rain by Nothomb (French in translation)</li>
<li>Sulphuric Acid by Nothomb (French in translation)</li>
<li>The Oxford Murders by Martinez (Spanish in translation)</li>
<li>The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie</li>
<li>The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy</li>
<li>History of Love by Krauss</li>
<li><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</span></strong> by Shaffer & Barrows</li>
<li><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the Woods</span></strong> by Tana French</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/04/21/petropolis-by-anya-ulinich/">Petropolis</a> by Anya Ulinich</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/05/18/revolutionary-road/">Revolutionary Road</a> by Richard Yates</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.1morechapter.com/2011/10/03/the-thing-around-your-neck-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/">The Thing Around Your Neck</a> by Adichie</strong></li>
<li>The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax</li>
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<b>Summary</b>: Rachel is a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Kids" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Missionary Kids">missionary kid</a> living in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa_Protectorate" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="East Africa Protectorate">British East Africa</a>. The year is 1919 and <i>The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i" rel="historycom" target="_blank" title="World War I">Great War</a></i> is far from her, but a different kind of war dramatically changes her life and all that she has known for the past 13 years. Influenza has advanced and in its wake, it takes both her parents, who are mission doctors. Rachel has to trust her British neighbors, who she believes is dishonest. They take her in and send her to England. Her body maybe in England, but her heart is not. Her one desire is to return to the land that she calls home, Africa. </div>
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<b>My Thoughts</b>: I've never been to Africa, so I can't tell you if the descriptions were accurate, but I can tell you that they were detailed. You could see and hear it, which I loved about this book. The other part that I liked is that Rachel is a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Third culture kid">third culture kid</a>. I live overseas and have three TCKs of my own, so I could relate to some of the feelings she had when leaving Africa and adjusting to life in England. </div>
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My list is <a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2010/12/filling-in-gaps-100-booksfive-years.html">here.</a>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-40097503859461380572012-04-11T09:05:00.000-07:002012-04-11T09:05:37.727-07:00Lindy's Reading ListSome of these books have been stuck on my bookshelf for ages, and some are ones I am desperate to read, as always I am sure I have missed books and the list will grow ever longer with time.<br />
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1. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood<br />
2. Regeneration – Pat Barker<br />
3. The Eye in the Door – Pat Barker<br />
4. A Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain<br />
5. Villette – Charlotte Bronte<br />
6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte<br />
7. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan<br />
8. Possession – A.S.Byatt<br />
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M Cain<br />
10. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John le Carre<br />
11. The Magic Toyshop – Angela Carter<br />
12. Girl with the Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier<br />
13. An Autobiography – Agatha Christie<br />
14. The Shooting Party – Isabel Colegate<br />
15. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle<br />
16. Going Solo – Roald Dahl<br />
17. Nothing is Safe – E.M.Delafield<br />
18. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens<br />
19. Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens<br />
20. The Old Curiousity Shop – Charles Dickens<br />
21. The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens<br />
22. Middlemarch – George Eliot<br />
23. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot<br />
24. Charlotte Gray – Sebastian Faulks<br />
25. Human Traces – Sebastian Faulks<br />
26. Faulks on Fiction – Sebastian Faulks<br />
27. Snobs – Julian Fellowes<br />
28. The History of Tom Jones – Henry Fielding<br />
29. The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />
30. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />
31. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safron Foer<br />
32. Fall of Giants – Ken Follett<br />
33. Howards End – E.M. Forster<br />
34. A Room With A View – E.M.Forster<br />
35. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster<br />
36. The Six Wives of Henry VIII – Antonia Fraser<br />
37. Must You Go? – Antonia Fraser<br />
38. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy<br />
39. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell<br />
40. Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves<br />
41. Fallen Skies – Philippa Gregory<br />
42. The Lady of the Rivers – Philippa Gregory<br />
43. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy<br />
44. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy<br />
45. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy<br />
46. The Go-Between – L.P Hartley<br />
47. Young Romantics – Daisy Hay<br />
48.<strong> How<a href="http://lindylit.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/howards-end-is-on-the-landing/" target="_blank">ards End is on the Landing – Susan Hill</a></strong><br />
49. The Man in the Picture – Susan Hill<br />
50. The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst<br />
51. The Iliad – Homer<br />
52. The Expendable Man – Dorothy. B. Hughes<br />
53. Birthday Letters – Ted Hughes<br />
54. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<br />
55. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood<br />
56. When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro<br />
57. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce<br />
58. The Report – Jessica Frances Kane<br />
59. Little Boy Lost – Margahrita Laski<br />
60. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H.Lawrence<br />
61. Women in Love – D.H.Lawrence<br />
62. Small Island – Andrea Levy<br />
63. Bring up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel<br />
64. My Cousin Rachel – Daphne Du Maurier<br />
65. Pure – Andrew Miller<br />
66. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford<br />
67. Wigs on the Green – Nancy Mitford<br />
68. The Blessing – Nancy Mitford<br />
69. Madresfield – Jane Mulvagh<br />
70. Starter For Ten – David Nicholls<br />
71. The Understudy – David Nicholls<br />
72. Byron in Love – Edna O’Brien<br />
73. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje<br />
74. 1984 – George Orwell<br />
75. Decline of the English Murder – George Orwell<br />
76. Half of the Human Race – Anthony Quinn<br />
77. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson<br />
78. Midnight’s Children – Salmon Rushdie<br />
79. The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton – Elizabeth Speller<br />
80. Perfume – Patrick Suskind<br />
81. Vanity Fair – William M Thackery<br />
82. The Hobbit – J.R.R.Tolkien<br />
83. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy<br />
84. Jane Austen – Claire Tomalin<br />
85. Charles Dickens – Claire Tomalin<br />
86. Thomas Hardy – Claire Tomlain<br />
87.The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters<br />
88. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh<br />
89. Scoop – Evelyn Waugh<br />
90. Mary Boleyn – Alison Weir<br />
91. The Lady in the Tower – Alison Weir<br />
92. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton<br />
93. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton<br />
94. Greenbanks – Dorothy Whipple<br />
95. They Were Sisters – Dorothy Whipple<br />
96. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde<br />
97. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson<br />
98. The Kenneth Williams Diaries – Kenneth Williams<br />
99. The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh<br />
100. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak<br />
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As well as posting updates on here I will be writing about my reading progress on my word press blog <a href="http://www.lindylit.wordpress.com/">www.lindylit.wordpress.com</a><br />
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I'm looking forward to hearing how everyone else is getting on with this challenge<br />
LindyLindylithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12923147013646746942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-35984559318286529982012-04-02T06:29:00.001-07:002012-04-02T06:34:26.499-07:00Dubliners Competition<a href="http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/" target="_blank"><i>Dublin: One City, One Book</i></a> is an award-winning initiative, which encourages everyone to read a book connected with the capital city of Ireland during the month of April every year. <br />
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This year is the "Dubliners" by James Joyce, so to mark this event I thought that I would give a prize of the 'One City, One Book' O'Brien edition of the book "Dubliners" (see right) along with some nice goodies to EACH person who posts a review of the "Dubliners" or other works of Joyce this month? <br />
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This is open till 30th April.<br />
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Any takers?? <br />
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Anyhoo happy Reading and looking forward to the reviews :)<br />
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Emily <br />
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For more info on Dublin: one city, one book see website: http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/Emily Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01707967073095394090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-59754048653380773462012-04-01T01:17:00.000-07:002012-04-01T01:17:59.404-07:00House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiMy first book completed for <b>Fill in the Gaps</b>! Yay!<br />
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<b><i>My thoughts:</i></b><br />
This is probably not going to be very long because, frankly, I don't know quite what to write. How to review a book that I liked and found very interesting, yet still gave me a headache every time I read it and has still left me scratching my head? I'm not sure. <b><i>House of Leaves</i></b> is literally a labyrinth. Yes, there is an entire chapter that is actually a labyrinth...on the page. What can I say? The book is really an enigma. I still don't know what the truth is, or who was actually telling the story, and this would normally piss me off. But ironically, it just made me more intrigued. Even though I finished the book, I'm still going to look over it more and I found a helpful page on Mark Danielewski's blog. The page is <b><u><a href="http://markzdanielewski.info/features/guide/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exploration Z</a></u></b> and it's <b><i>The Idiot's Guide to House of Leaves</i></b>. I'm going to explore this page and see if it can help me figure a few things out. I know that this review has not really given much insight into if the book is good or not and I apologize for that. Let me just say again...I liked it (4 stars on <b>Goodreads</b>), it's confusing, it gets the reader thinking (I think that's where the headache comes from). Okay, now I'm getting a headache writing this review. ;O)<br />
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<b><i>About the book</i></b>:<br />
Years ago, when <b><i>House of Leaves</i></b> was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.<br />
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Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.<br />
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The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.<br />
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Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.<br />
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Michelle Stockard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03572227726980569386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-34839135224626706522012-03-24T07:59:00.003-07:002012-03-24T07:59:56.183-07:00Update + ReviewLa la la la la. I just realized that I have 13 months before my 5 years are up.
And I've read 14 books (ok, 14.5, but that .5 is <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, so that should count for like, 6 or something). So, we all know what I'll be doing in the next 13 months, right?
BUT! When I was looking at my list to see what I had left to read, I saw a book that I had actually already read!
So, <i>Midnight on the Orient Express</i> by Agatha Christie
I was most excited because this was the first Kindle book that I checked out from the library, on the day that OverDrive became Kindle compatible.
<a href="http://www.jenrothschild.com/2011/10/murder-on-orient-express.html">My full review is here</a>, but here's the relevant bit:
<i>I like the twist on the contained environment, but you don't get a sense of the claustrophobia that must have been there-- train cars stuck in snow with murder? There should have been more tension, but that's not Christie's style. What I find most ingenious about Christie's work isn't how her detectives solve the crimes but rather in ingenuity of her criminals. Poirot just kinda sits back and thinks through details only he's noticed. But the real genius of Christie is how intricate the murder plots are.</i>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-66188490851128902672012-03-21T03:08:00.003-07:002012-03-21T03:35:22.204-07:00Update!Blogger tells me I haven't posted here since the start of August...my bad! Back then I was hauling myself through Midnight's Children, which in the end I really enjoyed. I'm looking forward to reading more Salman Rushdie one of these days.<br /><br />Between then and now I've crossed a couple of other books off my list. The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields, I really enjoyed. It's the fictionalised autobiography of an ordinary Canadian woman, it's beautifully written. The Gathering, by Anne Enright I wasn't too wild about - it's the story of the ups and downs of an Irish family. I finished it feeling mildly irritated.<br /><br />Then over Christmas I read Anna Karenina, which I probably would have enjoyed more if I hadn't read The Master and Margerita right before it. (Sidenote: that book is a new favourite. It's so wonderfully depraved!) Having said that though, l did like it. It's a great epic saga, and all of the characters are wonderfully flawed. Really, they all are. At one point or another I hated every single character in this book, but as collective group they're all okay :)<br /><br />So that's where I'm at right now - 42 down, 58 to go! I'm thinking about possibly tackling Gone With the Wind next, although I might just resort to my tried and true method of a random number generator.<br /><br />Also, I've decided to stop putting it off so I'm writing this now so you all can remind me - I'm going to read Ulysses this year EVEN IF IT KILLS ME WHICH IT PROBABLY WILL! I'm determined.<br /><br />PS - I seem to be much better at updating my Goodreads account, so in case I disappear for another eight months, I might be <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1065297-briony">here.</a><br /><br />PPS - Moonrat, I just finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay...Brionyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466859363510647972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-73115299334036569422012-03-17T20:50:00.005-07:002012-03-17T21:59:46.871-07:0013% down, 87% to go....<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Maybe I shouldn't have titled my post that way - it's fairly demoralizing. Well, here are the 10 books I have read :) (in no particular order):<br /><br />1) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy - an interesting book that I would read again. The now-deceased author was best friends with author Ann Patchett. I'm a fan of Patchett's - when I read her book, Truth & Beauty, which was about her friendship w/Grealy, I had to read this book as well.<br /><br />2) The Book Thief by Mark Zusak - the title alone had me. I liked it enough to recommend it to a friend who enjoys books set in Europe during WWII.<br /><br />3) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - I'm currently in the middle of this one, so the jury is out, folks! I've read so many promising things about it that I'll be sad if I don't enjoy it.<br /><br />4) City of Thieves by David Benioff - I loved this book. It's another WWII story. It's brutal, difficult to read at times and hilariously funny. I finished it and thought it's bound to become a classic.<br /><br />5) The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean - ANOTHER WWII story. Sense a theme here? I enjoyed this book for its originality and because I learned much about the Hermitage Museum's art and history.<br /><br />6) Hyper-chondriac by Brian Frazer - another book I'd like to read again. This was a hilarious memoir with a lot of practical information about medical treatment.<br /><br />7) Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - remember when everyone and their brother was reading this book? I was late to the party (I often resist trends), but I have to say I enjoyed this memoir enough to purchase his following 2 books in this trifecta of memoirs.<br /><br />8) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - I used to work at a bookstore and all of the "kids" I worked with L.O.V.E.D this book. Their love bordered on obsession, actually. This reason, coupled with the fact that I am a fan of the author, Jon Krakauer (adored his book Into Thin Air), ensured that my expectations were enormous. I was a bit let-down. Chris McCandless' story IS compelling, interesting and sad...I just didn't love the book.<br /><br />9) Empire Falls by Richard Russo - this book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Again, I had ginormous expectations. The book was good. It just wasn't as good as I expected it to be.<br /><br />10) A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus - the description on the back of this book made me snatch it up and purchase it immediately. I loved how original, yet dark, this story appeared to be. Well, it was original and dark. For me, however, it took a turn into the absurd and never returned.<br /><br />11) Still Alice by Lisa Genova - this is a moving and heartbreaking novel about early onset Alzheimer's Disease. The author has a PhD in Neuroscience, so she knows her topic well.<br /><br />12) Little Bee by Chris Cleave - it seems people either love this book or hate it. I fall into the "meh" category. I am second-guessing myself because I was sick when I read it. I've saved it for a possible 2nd read some day in the future. We'll see if that day every comes.<br /><br />13) Barrel Fever by David Sedaris - I consider myself a Sedaris fan. This book - essays, of course - fell short for me. Not his best work.<br /><br />That's all, folks! I'm going to attempt to read more often and read more of the books on my list. Otherwise, this list is going to take me 20 years to complete.<br /><br />One other note: I hadn't reviewed my list in a very long time. When I looked it over recently, I was not surprised to see that I had been overly ambitious when I created it. I included several trilogies (as one selection), and I also included numerous HUGE tomes. Ugh. Will I ever learn?<br /><br />Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their picks.<br /><br /><br /></span></span>Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291203353555877983noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-25762135837798535022012-03-15T17:37:00.003-07:002012-03-16T02:41:48.599-07:00HRO's 100 OrangesThis is the list of 100 books I plan to read for the "Fill in the Gaps: 100 Books Project." All of the titles are taken from the <a href="http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/">Orange Prize for Fiction</a> lists. (Thus the reason I'm calling it 100 Oranges.)<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the abbreviations: W=Winner; SL=Shortlist; LL=Longlist; NW=New Writers Award</span></i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>MY 100 ORANGES</b></div><br />
<ol><li>26a by Diana Evans (2005 NW/W)</li>
<li>Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert (2005 LL)</li>
<li>Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1997 SL)</li>
<li>Annabel by Kathleen Winters (2011 SL)</li>
<li>Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (2007 SL)</li>
<li>The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith (2003 SL)</li>
<li>The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (2009 LL)</li>
<li>Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (2010 LL)</li>
<li>Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo (2009 LL)</li>
<li>The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (2001 LL)</li>
<li>The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn (1996 SL)</li>
<li>The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale (2010 NW/SL)</li>
<li>The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini (2010 NW/W)</li>
<li>Buddha Da by Anne Donovan (2003 SL)</li>
<li>Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (2005 LL)</li>
<li>The Colour by Rose Tremain (2004 SL)</li>
<li>The Dancers Dancing by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne (2000 SL)</li>
<li>The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (2002 LL)</li>
<li>Disobedience by Naomi Alderman (2006 LL; 2006 NW/W)</li>
<li>The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin (2006 NW/SL)</li>
<li>The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas (2008 LL)</li>
<li>An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay (2009 NW/W)</li>
<li>Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (2009 LL)</li>
<li>The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates (2005 LL)</li>
<li>Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (2000 LL)</li>
<li>Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002 SL)</li>
<li>Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (2002 LL)</li>
<li>The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews (2009 LL)</li>
<li>Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller (2003 LL)</li>
<li>Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson (2001 SL)</li>
<li>Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1997 W)</li>
<li>Gilgamesh by Joan London (2004 LL)</li>
<li>Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold (2009 LL)</li>
<li>Gut Symmetries by Jeannette Winterson (1997 LL)</li>
<li>Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (2007 W)</li>
<li>Heliogoland by Shena Mackay (2003 SL)</li>
<li>Hen’s Teeth by Manda Scott (1997 SL)</li>
<li>The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (2001 LL)</li>
<li>Homestead by Rosina Lippi (2001 SL)</li>
<li>Hotel World by Ali Smith (2001 SL)</li>
<li>House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore (2006 LL)</li>
<li>The Hunter by Julia Leigh (2000 LL)</li>
<li>I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (1997 SL)</li>
<li>Ice Road by Gillian Slovo (2004 SL)</li>
<li>The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (2001 W)</li>
<li>If I Told You Once by Judith Budnitz (2000 SL)</li>
<li>Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna (2008 NW/W)</li>
<li>Island - Jane Rogers (2000 LL)</li>
<li>Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (2012 LL)</li>
<li>Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (2011 LL)</li>
<li>La Cucina by Lily Prior (2002 LL)</li>
<li>Larry’s Party by Carol Shields (1998 W)</li>
<li>The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2001 LL)</li>
<li>The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2010 LL)</li>
<li>The Lizard Cage by Karen Connely (2007 NW/W)</li>
<li>Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (2008 SL)</li>
<li>The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (2011 SL)</li>
<li>Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun (2009 NW/SL)</li>
<li>Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden (2009 SL)</li>
<li>Mother of Pearl by Mary Morissy (1996 LL)</li>
<li>The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2012 LL)</li>
<li>The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (2006 SL)</li>
<li>The Observations by Jane Harris (2007 SL)</li>
<li>On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2006 W)</li>
<li>Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2004 SL)</li>
<li>The Outcast by Sadie Jones (2008 SL)</li>
<li>Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (2012 LL)</li>
<li>The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by Ann Weisgarber (2009 LL; 2009 NW/SL)</li>
<li>Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen (2007 LL; 2007 NW/SL)</li>
<li>Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie (2004 SL)</li>
<li>The Remedy by Michelle Lovric (2005 LL)</li>
<li>The Road Home by Rose Tremain (2008 W)</li>
<li>The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (2011 LL)</li>
<li>Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (2009 SL)</li>
<li>The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (2012 LL)</li>
<li>A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (2005 SL)</li>
<li>The Siege by Helen Dunmore (2002 SL)</li>
<li>Small Island by Andrea Levy (2004 W)</li>
<li>So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy (1996 LL)</li>
<li>The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2012 LL)</li>
<li>Sorry by Gail Jones (2008 LL)</li>
<li>A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (1996 W)</li>
<li>The Submission by Amy Waldman (2012 LL)</li>
<li>Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (2011 LL)</li>
<li>This is How by M.J. Hyland (2010 LL)</li>
<li>Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (2012 LL)</li>
<li>The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (2011 W)</li>
<li>The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay (2012 LL)</li>
<li>Twisted Heart by Rebecca Gowers (2010 LL)</li>
<li>Unless by Carol Shields (2003 SL)</li>
<li>The Vintners Luck by Elizabeth Knox (1999 LL)</li>
<li>A Visit from Voltaire by Dinah Lee Kung (2004 LL)</li>
<li>War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen (2003 LL)</li>
<li>We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2005 W)</li>
<li>What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (2007 LL)</li>
<li>When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant (2000 W)</li>
<li>White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway (2006 LL)</li>
<li>White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000 SL)</li>
<li>The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (2009 SL)</li>
<li>Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2010 SL)</li>
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Start date: March 15, 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-77311305830653824012012-03-15T07:56:00.001-07:002012-03-15T07:57:14.163-07:00Some housekeepingHey Ladies and Gents,<br />
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It's been a while, but I've gotten a few emails asking for updates on link information on the site (e.g. blog roll, 100 list etc). I know I've fallen behind on the book cover review links/author links etc - and hope to remedy this in the future.<br />
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At the moment though I want to update member info, so I'd really appreciate it if people could leave comment below or email me if they notice (a) their name isn't on 100 list drop down menu or/and (b) blog is not mentioned on the blog roll. <br />
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If this is the case - leave me your name (as it appears here), link to your 100 list/blog and I'll sort it out.<br />
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Thanks Everyone and hope all is going well with life and the challenge :)Emily Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01707967073095394090noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-65516041543430863172012-03-13T17:43:00.000-07:002012-03-13T17:43:54.192-07:00What Are Your Favourite Books?I have been a little lax in reading books from my list over the past thirteen or twelve months. When I tried to get back in the swing of things, I remembered why that was the case. I simply can't find some of these titles. Whilst I expected some difficulty finding a few, I had no idea so many of them would hard for me to get. I have tried interlibrary loan, several times, skimmed stacks of garage sale books, and called everyone I know who owns a book on the off chance someone had a copy down the back of the sofa.<br />
Buying books is not an option for me right now, so I have decided I must replace some of the titles from my original list. I am going to start with ten, but that number may go as high as thirty. So I am asking you all for your recommendations, any genre welcome. <br />
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Help me Obi-Wan, you are my only hope.iasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199686429685990360noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-69262144107343163782012-03-08T11:01:00.000-08:002012-03-08T11:01:07.121-08:00Darlene's Review: Outlander by Diana GabaldonHi, everyone!<br />
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I am on the board! I just completed the 1st book on my list. I know, I know...not much to cheer about but I'm happy to stroke just one off the list :)<br />
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Here is the link to my review of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon: <a href="http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com/2012/03/audiobook-review-outlander-by-diana.htm">http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com/2012/03/audiobook-review-outlander-by-diana.htm</a>l.<br />
<br />Darlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10222625207655829945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483271313499074063.post-24187665305322634022012-03-07T02:23:00.002-08:002012-03-07T02:27:18.737-08:00Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dfiDEYkrOcND4E7syJAF8CX3sPTCqvr3YO55VHs9gXeVx_Yr-33SkJPJ4fQdOnzzlujdrelMCkJQTAlKGkg0Lg_u2F0Sr5f75eiu-Yp6-M3_49tkQomHvTmXLmJeCBANmtKV8o9dJkzx/s1600/Palladian.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dfiDEYkrOcND4E7syJAF8CX3sPTCqvr3YO55VHs9gXeVx_Yr-33SkJPJ4fQdOnzzlujdrelMCkJQTAlKGkg0Lg_u2F0Sr5f75eiu-Yp6-M3_49tkQomHvTmXLmJeCBANmtKV8o9dJkzx/s320/Palladian.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717099796727064466" /></a><br />Cassandra Dashwood, at the age of eighteen is quiet, bookish and, dare I say, a little dull. And, after her father’s recent death, she is alone in the world.<br /><br />Fortunately Mrs. Turner, her former headmistress, takes an interest in Cassandra, and finds her a post: Marion Vanbrugh is a widower with a young daughter, Sophy, and he needs a governess.<br /><br />It was so, so easy for Cassandra to cast herself and Jane Eyre and Marion as Mr Rochester.But reality would prove to be a little different.<br /><br />Marion was as quiet, bookish and dull as Cassandra. And he was weighed down by his family; an elderly aunt, who kept house quite ineffectually; a cousin, pregnant by her lover, not her husband; another cousin, who was charming but quite directionless; and Violet, his wife who had died but still had a presence.<br /><br />And they all lived together, their lives stagnating in a crumbling mansion.<br /><br />It was fortunate that Sophy was charming, and that her father took a great interest in his daughter and her governess …<br /><br />This is a story with echoes of other authors: Jane Austen in the heroine’s name, and in more besides; Charlotte Bronte in the heroine’s position; Ivy Compton-Burnett in some of the dialogue and relationships; Daphne Du Maurier in the presence, and untold story, of Marion’s wife; Molly Keane in the crumbling mansion; Thomas Hardy in some of the darker moments; and maybe even more that have passed me by when I was caught up …<br /><br />Not a satire, not a pastiche, but something rather different, and rather more interesting. Something I can’t quite explain.<br /><br />A dark tale, but the darkness is offset by wry humor and dry wit.<br /><br />Events unfold slowly, but every sentence brings a new insight, or a new development. There are small, subtle changes, and there is one sudden, tragic, utterly real event that will change everything.<br /><br />Everything is driven by the characters; characters I found difficult to like, but they were pinpointed so accurately that I was always fascinated. Because I understood their situations, their inner lives, their motivations, and what made each of them unique.<br /><br />And there is a nicely drawn love song threaded through. Though there will not be happy endings for all …<br /><br />Palladian is a strangely intriguing novel – just as good as I had hoped but not at all what I had expected.FleurFisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00096222149445024649noreply@blogger.com0